A company is running its SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. The company needs to retain database backups for the previous 30 days. The company is taking full online backups by using SAP HANA Studio and is sto

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Options

• AContinue to use SAP HANA Studio to back up the SAP HANA database to gp3 EBS volumes.
• BContinue to use SAP HANA Studio to back up the SAP HANA database. Use Throughput
• CUse AWS Backup to take full online backups of the SAP HANA database.
• DContinue to use SAP HANA Studio to back up the SAP HANA database. Use AWS Backint Agent

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  15% (4)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  77% (20)

Explanation

The goal is the lowest cost storage for 30-day backup retention. Amazon EBS (including gp3) is block storage designed for low-latency active workloads - it is significantly more expensive per GB than object storage and is not cost-optimized for backup retention. Amazon S3 is the lowest-cost option for backup data that is read infrequently. Option D uses AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA, which is an SAP-certified backup tool that integrates directly with the SAP HANA backup framework (replacing local disk as the backup target) and writes backup data directly to Amazon S3. This eliminates the EBS volume entirely for backup storage, replacing it with S3 pricing which is approximately 10-20x cheaper per GB than gp3 EBS. Option A keeps the expensive gp3 EBS. Option B switches to Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), which is cheaper than gp3 but still more expensive than S3 and not suited for backup workloads. Option C (AWS Backup for SAP HANA) is not a native SAP HANA backup integration and does not provide the same direct-to-S3 efficiency as Backint Agent.

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